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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Incline.

Today I wanted to be able to do an interval workout... but I definitely did not get out of bed in time to pull that off. The workout I wanted to do is 37 minutes long plus 5 minute cool down so around 42 minutes on the treadmill... I ended up on the treadmill for 33 minutes this morning. I am thinking MAYBE Friday I will go to the gym. Friday's are normally my off day, but I took Sunday and Monday off so I could make up for not doing long run Sunday by doing a longish run on Friday on the treadmill and keeping it interesting with an interval workout... we shall see... I tell myself this every week I take both Sunday and Monday off and it does not happen. ;)

Although...now I look back at this morning... 10 minutes would have not killed me in my morning schedule... oh well.

Anyway... So what I did instead was I ran 3.2 miles. Around Mile .50 miles I thought to myself lets make this interesting so I increased the Incline to 1%. Which is not anything outstanding but it definitely added to the intensity!

Mile 1= 0.5 miles at 0% incline at 6.7mph then 0.5 miles with at 1% incline at 6.7mphMile 2= Full mile at 1% incline at 6.8mphMile 3= Full mile at 1% incline at 6.9mphThe last 0.20 miles = 0.20 miles at 1% incline at 7.0mph (I felt like I was sprinting! BUT It felt awesome!)

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Hi. I am a twenty something living right outside of Boston... In February of 2013 I got tired of not feeling good about my body and kept telling myself "tomorrow" ill sign up for a gym. So I signed up and started paying attention to what I ate. I am not on any crazy diets, but I just focus on eating healthier. My blog is my journey to learning on how to be healthy. I want to go from "zero" (not working out at all) to sixty (being physically fit!). Sometimes ill blog about random stuff too... you can check it out here.